It's been a busy week, running round, fixing bugs, replying to all your emails. It's like the good old days. I guess you can't expect to launch a new system without there being a few teething troubles. Saying that, the relaunch went pretty smoothly – there were a few browser issues, hopefully that should all be fixed.

Thanks to all the good people that helped us identify and correct site issues, your help is greatly appreciated. Good to hear from so many of you, lots of folks going way back.

Just in case, if for any reason you are having difficulties with the site, PLEASE drop us a line so we can fix it. We can't fix what we don't know about, and this kind of feedback is invaluable. You can mail support@gaia.io if you are having troubles. We also added a "Shout Box" on the site, so you can leave us notes, issues, suggestions etc.

If you were having trouble purchasing Beans (because there were no payment methods available), this is because the old system had a habit of blacklisting folks for the slightest thing. We've altered that a bit now, so if you were having trouble before you may want to try again. We have already mailed blocked customers, so you should already know about this if it affects you. We will be adding alternative payment methods shortly, so please stay tuned.

Apologies that we missed last week's update. We simply got snowed under with fixing stuff. We will start updating again – slowly at first, but as things stabilize and pick up, we will be releasing as fast as I can edit. Which is a little on the slow side, since the higher res movies take days rather than hours to export. Time to break out the monster editing box methinks.

If you are a long-term customer of ZooSkool, KinkCafe etc, we will contacting you later this week / early next week (unless you contact us first of course). We are introducing some new features for long-term folks, so if that applies to you please keep an eye on your inbox (spam folder, junk mail folder etc). Or drop us a line.

Uh, I remember a time when our newsletters were all about the Petlove, not Beans, emails and system bugs… well, I am extremely keen to flex my new found programming skills, and get cracking on the new projects. All these years and many thousands of euros spent on other folks building stuff for us, and failing – turns out we could have done it ourselves all along. That was a kick in the pants in one respect – but liberating in another. So, once we have achieved a bit of stability, we can forge ahead with the new features and projects we have planned.

We have some delicious new pet material lined up for you, some very lovely new faces, all doing what we love – hard – with the kind of doggies we all enjoy. Damn I've missed all this  I saw more ladyknots in the first few days of launching than I had in… well quite some time. Nice to see Vixen has been dabbling with the tie more, and can now take a good tight knot in her doggy box. That's a photo of her up-top… what u think? Not bad huh ;)